On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 02:08:55PM +0200, Marco Fioretti wrote:
-> Hello,
-> this is both a suggestion for next release of Mandrake,
-> and a search for somebody who has already solved the
-> same problem.
->
-> On servers and/or low resources PCs, it would be very
-> nice (to save resources) if one could work:
->
-> 1) without X, but
-> 2) At the maximum resolution (1024x768 or higher)
-> 2) viewing different text windows at the same time.
->
-> Example: I have Mandrake 6 on my laptop (P133, 32 M RAM).
-> It *does* run KDE/Gimp/KFM/etc... when I need them, but
-> you can imagine the speed...
->
-> Many times, however, I only need emacs, one shell and
-> pine. With an environment as above, I would go much faster
-> without loosing resolution and multi-window view.
You can do this without Twin. Emacs will run a shell in a windows (M-x
shell). And you can switch virtual consoles using <ALT>Fx where x is the
console number you want. I believe you can specify the text resulution of
the console you want to Linux at boot time, but I don't know how. Tomsrtbt
even lets you have an optional menu to select a resulution.
But Twin looks like a good way to do this all on one screen.
->
-> Same applies on a server installation.
->
-> Now the suggestion:
->
-> SVGAText and TWIN (http://linuz.sns.it/~max/twin)
-> are two GPL packages that would do together
-> exactly what I described.
-> It would be *VERY* nice to have them polished and tested
-> by the MDK team, compiled for pentium, and packaged together
-> with as many configuration instructions as possible (i.e. tested
-> configuration files for many video cards).
->
-> Again, if somebody has already tested this combination,
-> please let us know. TIA.
->
-> Ciao,
-> Marco Fioretti
Twin also looks useful for the installation process. Could the
installation code detect the ability to do high resolution text mode, and
go from there?
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